[cgiapp] Anonymous home page editing?

[Joshua Miller]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Ron Savage <ron at savage.net.au> wrote:

> Hi Mark
>
> On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 08:23 -0400, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> > On 05/14/2011 02:20 AM, Joshua Miller wrote:
> > > Is there a reason the home page can be modified by anyone
> sans-registration
> > > and sans-approval?
> >
> > No good reason. Does anyone want to be the "wiki admin" and see about
> > making that change with the current software, or moving us to a
> > better/newer wiki platform?
>
> I'd like to know how exactly we are to judge a request from someone to
> get access to updating the site.
>

Have they said "HI" on this list at all? Could easily require more than
that, but if someone has never even mentioned a peep on here, they probably
shouldn't be editing the home page.


> Or is it the case the edits would take place on a non-public version,
> which is reviewed by an editor?
>
>
Just my 2 cents, but I don't think the site needs that much protection at
this time. If there's a log of changes, who made the change (registered
user), and that user was vetted by saying Hi to the list one or more times,
that should be enough to stop anonymous spam link insertion, and still leave
it very open (encouraging) to contributors.


As for a wiki admin (requested above by Mark), I'd be happy to contribute
and share that role. Who is the admin right now?
--
Josh I.